Ok, but 1/2 term is not far away is it.. either way we will still have the same amount of holidays..

So if I wanted to go away on a family holiday with my (hypothetical) kids, my Sister, and her kids I couldn't, because they live in another part of the country?

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of families find a long summer break to be the most convenient way of doing it by far.

Teach them at home.

Are they in a special school?

In that hypothetical situation you could still go because you are allowed to pull your kids out of school for two weeks a year anyway - loads of people do this in September because the price of package holidays drop then.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of stay at home mothers start wondering if it's really that wrong to eat your children about four weeks in.

Are you really allowed to pull your kids out of school for two weeks? I never knew that..

Your not meant to pull your kids out at all, and can be fined for it.

And a solution which relies on kids missing two weeks of schooling isn't really a solution.

Do, but shouldn't normally


I know that where I grew up, taking holiday in term time was fairly normal. However they started cracking down on it having to be a family holiday, and when my brother was in his final years, it was virtually banned as it got to the point when everyone was taking it as an 'entitlement' and sitting at home.

Interesting. My wife got pregnant 'just after' Beex Cottage I, and child has been measured today with a head circumference in the 98th centile.

I want answers, DavPaz. Answers.

I'll be honest, we pretty much all had a go.

Our primary schools make you fill in a form explain absence and always give permission on the grounds that if you can only afford to go during off season then the learning experience you get from going to a foreign country is more important than staying home.

Saying that though the girls' school's attendance record must be shocking because they never enforce the "if your kid is sick make them stay at home" rule - it's really awe inspiring the state some of these kids come to (and stay in) school in and you just know it's going to go round till every single child there has had it. The boy's school won't even let you think about sending them to school if you suspect they might be coming down with something and then they have to stay off for 48 hours after any symptoms are gone.

Erm... well. Ahem. It was Zio. Probably.

Look! A squirrel!

Jesus Christ... imagine if he'd impregnated my sister! The baby would have been born as a giant, bodiless head!

I'm trying not to, but now I can't stop the visions. Oh lordy.

I daren't ask.

Via Caesarean, presumably.

Terrific actress.

Crikey.

So, it turns out that the books on the antepenultimate shelf of the bookcase were supporting the penultimate shelf, which were in turn supporting the ultimate shelf. Removal of one third of these books to place into a box has given me another 26 reasons to hate Victorian novels.

She's fine, but her baby has a head that is literally off the charts for size.

A Co Worker was telling me all about this "Pimp my snack" website at lunchtime, and how ace it is.

Pimp that snack.

You have co-workers? I always imagined you more as a 'Scottish' Nikola Tesla: mucking about with electricity and stuff in your isolated base.

Also, how big was the deep fried mars bar?

Correct. I do genuinely have parts marked "Tesla" scattered all over my kitchen table.

However, I also go in to the office most days, mostly to eat cake and mess about. OK, for the company. So lonely.

Anyway, tell me about Pimp That Snack. I know it's CG's. I had a quick look but the adverts in the face and facebook style comments knocked me back, so I didn't get as far as seeing any snack pimpage.

It's mostly people making large versions of well known snack foods of the non-vegan variety. You'd love it.

Busted!

Pimp my that snack's over five years old now? Sheesh. I feel old.

You can't pin it on me, I came on her tits.

Stuck in Roman times? Not sure which road will lead you to Rome? Then just log on to OmnesViae - your 4th Century route planner.*
*Some features require internet access (not yet invented)


A bit fiddly, but a pretty neat way of showing the extent of the empire and its communication systems. Don't expect it to get you across the channel, though - the route from London to Rome was beyond the system's capabilities.

I prefer Times New Roman, myself.

vos turly es a comic sans serius

Dude! We totally changed time!

But yeah, those parts of the Empire are crappy anyway.
Not as bad as the northernmost parts, though.

Ahem. Oopsie!

Its UK bits seem a little broken. It doesn't have London/Londinium, for example, but it does have Madvs, which appears to be Dartford or so.

WTV?

Malc

Doesn't have street view.

If anyone's stuck for something to do today and has access to craft materials, you could do worse than to try making this....

http://i.imgur.com/aPCkP.jpg

Is it still alive?

Yes. It's getting put into some nature park, apparently.

Good. I love Crocodiles and Aligators and wouldn't want to see them hurt.

Oooh, I might give that a go tomorrow, wonder how strong it will be with paper rather than card?

Crocs are ace. Any animal that just waits for food to arrive is OK by me.

That's pretty much what my cat does. He gets about one bird a year by waiting patiently at the bottom of the fence waiting for one to fly into his gob.

*Stands open mouthed outside Nandos*

Not-a-cat murdered a whole family of mice by doing this. It was quite depressing really, especially if you imagined them all going out one after the other to look for each other.

Of course, then she thought she was a hunter and not a useless idiot, so she tried to take on a squirrel. She spent the rest of that weekend hiding under a table. Smart cats do not fuck with squirrels.